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The Leinster post office
Meanwhile, Arthur Daffen looked into CSIRO’s research on the
new South Hedland sub-division in the Pilbara mining region and
this eventually gave us a springboard to the design concepts for the
town. Here the principles included: integrating the management
houses with the workforce, reversing the houses away from the
road and putting inter-connecting pathways (called ‘snail-trails’)
between the house fronts, using evaporative air conditioning
to lower the inside temperature but also track the outside
temperature, connecting the single quarters with the houses via
the services sector (doctor etc.), letting the community create the
clubs and organisations so that they own them (but providing
sites, services and materials), encouraging and facilitating
individual landscaping efforts, providing a secure storage/parking
area for caravans and trailers, and building, owning and leasing
out a supermarket, bank, petrol station and café.
As part of the obligations under the Nickel (Agnew) Agreement
of 1974, the owners were obliged to provide facilities for a school
and teachers’ houses, a fire station staffed by volunteers and a
police station. Local government issues fell to the Shire of Leonora,
under whose jurisdiction Leinster falls.
Creating a sense of place
The general view of the former residents is that it worked well.
Sure the issue of isolation was still there, but it was community
isolation, particularly before the bitumen road arrived. There was
no loneliness apparent – we all knew each other and support was
there if needed, so the trust and resentment of FIFO was also
absent from the town.